Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1628-04-11
My duty remembered vnto you, I am very sory to heare that your hand continueth so ill, but I hope, by godes providence, you shall finde helpe by those thinges I have sent you, which I receyved from a woman that is very scilfull, and much sought vnto for these thinges, she is sister to Mr. 387Waterhouse the linnen draper in Cheape side, by whose meanes, I was brought to her, she told me, if you were at London she made noe doubt but to cure it quicly, but because you cannot come vp she therefore gave me these plaisters to send to you, and said that if it were not Gangreend she would warrant them by godes helpe to doe you present good, the vse of them is as followeth Take the Yellow plaister, as much as will cover your sore finger all over to the next Ioynt below the sore, and on the rest of your finger whereon this plaister doth not ly, lay as much of the blake plaister as will cover it all over, this must be done twice a day morning, and evening till it beginneth to grow well, and then once a day. The other blacke plaister you must lay all over your hand, and that you must shift once in 2 or 3 dayes. You must not wash it nor lay any other thing to it. this will draw out the thorne if any be in and heale it both. she will take nothing for it, and therfore I doe the rather credit hir, for she doth it only for freindes etc. I pray therfore vse it, and leave of any other course of surgery. I wish you were here at london where she might dresse it her selfe for newes I cannot write so good as the last this bearer will fully satisfy you of all proceedinges, which every day alter and change sometyme like to be good, by and by crosse againe.
for my voyage to new England2 I doe not resolve (especially following my vncle Downinges advice) except I misse of the Straightes, but I will stay till you have sold the land though I misse of both, thus with my duty Remembred againe to your selfe with my grandmother and mother and my love to my brothers and sister and the rest of our freindes I commend you to godes protection and rest Your obedient son
My uncle Fones hath paid 10 li. to my aunt Branch, he wondred he had no order from you.
We are all well (god be thanked) they all commend their loves to you. You need not send the Instrumentes.
W. 1. 37;
L. and L.
, I. 257–258; 5
Collections
, VIII. 6–8.
Cf. p. 385, supra. On the formation of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay and the Puritan emigration to New England, see, e.g., Edward Channing, History of the United States, I. 322–335; Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay (Cambridge, 1850); and the letters and other documents to be printed in succeeding volumes of these Papers.